Beau Taplin's Blog, page 3

"Every one of us deserves a place to call home, but don’t be so quick to see it built in..."

“Every one of us deserves a place to call home, but don’t be so quick to see it built in another’s soul when there is a full and flourishing paradise waiting to be discovered here within you.”

- Beau Taplin • A  P l a c e  T o  C a l l  H o m e 

"Do not hide your face. The moon is covered in craters yet still commands our attention, even in..."

“Do not hide your face.

The moon is covered

in craters yet still

commands our attention,

even in the midst

of all those glittering stars.

What I mean to say is,

you are magnificent, 

for all your imperfections,

simply as you are.”

- Beau Taplin • T h e  C r a t e r e d  M o o n  

"I would choosea handful of moments with you over a lifetime with anyone else."

“I would choose

a handful of moments 

with you 

over a lifetime 

with anyone else.”

- Beau Taplin • A  H a n d f u l  o f  M o m e n t s 

"A good book is not so much a teacher as it is a mirror for the soul, a revealer of truths you..."

“A good book is not so much a teacher as it is a mirror for the soul, a revealer of truths you already carry within you. This is precisely what makes reading so vital. In an increasingly external and spiritually malnourished world, a good book is a voyage inward.”

- Beau Taplin • R e v e a l e r  O f  T r u t h 

"When you are in pain, make noise, give your grief a voice. do not grant it strength through..."

“When you are in pain,

make noise,

give your grief a voice.

do not grant it

strength

through silence,

let it sing, let it roar.”

- Beau Taplin • M a k e  N o i s e 

"It’s a dangerous thing to romanticise the past, to allow nostalgia to drag up old memories from the..."

“It’s a dangerous thing to romanticise the past, to allow nostalgia to drag up old memories from the depths of our hearts and fashion them into something they’re not. We made a mirage of a memory and knelt before it like a false god. What we called love was nothing but foolish hope.”

- Beau Taplin • N o s t a l g i a 

"There are things you’ll wish would stay the same forever, but life goes on, with or without you,..."

“There are things you’ll wish would stay the same forever, but life goes on, with or without you, advancing with all the force of a whitewater river. Don’t exhaust your energy trying to fight its current. Instead, surrender control, face your eyes forward and trust in the joy of the journey,”

- Beau Taplin • W h i t e w a t e r  R i v e r

"Child, this pain is not your foe but a friend who is here only to shine a light on where the healing..."

“Child, this pain is not your foe but a friend who is here only to shine a light on where the healing is needed.”

- Beau Taplin • T h e  M e s s e n g e r 

"Truth is, I can go months at a time without thinking about you. I don’t like it, but it’s the only..."

“Truth is, I can go months at a time without thinking about you. I don’t like it, but it’s the only way I know how to survive. Occasionally though it will hit me, a terrible, hopeless dread will overcome me, as I realise you really are gone, this time for good.”

- Beau Taplin • W a r r e n 

"You are in my heartthe same way the sun comes upin the day andall of the stars disappear. I see..."

“You are in my heart

the same way 

the sun comes up

in the day and

all of the stars disappear. 

I see nothing else

when you are here.”

- Beau Taplin • O n l y  Y o u